id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt nv935140x5v Stephen Morgan Shepherds of a Dying Flock: The Rhenish Mission, the Herero, and German Colonial Conquest in South-West Africa 2014 .txt text/plain 302 11 30 At times contesting, at other times cooperating with the colonial regime, the missionaries attempted first to regulate Herero contact with colonialism, and then, in aftermath of war, to integrate them into the colonial order. It begins with a biological catastrophe that decimated Herero herds, impoverishing the Herero and forcing them to sell land to settlers, which threatened the basis for Herero economic and political autonomy. cache/nv935140x5v.txt txt/nv935140x5v.txt